Employers in the current hiring climate are making a shift away from insisting on a college degree as a primary requirement for applicants, and emphasizing the value of a candidate’s skills and their ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Even in the 1990s, at the peak of free-trade fever in Washington, Congress knew that globalization would be rough on some folks. Opening the economy up to cheap ...

Some states that have dropped degree requirements for public-sector jobs still force non-degree training providers to ...

A large nationwide job training program for seniors has not received its regular funding from the Department of Labor, without any explanation. The Senior Community Service Employment Program helps ...

Pentagon officials are rolling out changes to the popular SkillBridge job training program, hoping to land more veterans in full-time jobs and improve the learning experience. The first updates to the ...

Jordan Foley ticks off what he didn’t have when he started an intensive 13-week solar job training program on the West Side: money, a bed, clothes, food. The fear that the program wouldn’t be able to ...

At the best job skills and education programs, students experience hands-on job training, access to workplace technology, and barrier-breaking services that clear the path to successful employment.

This story has been updated with comments from the program’s director, students and Chicopee’s mayor. CHICOPEE — A job-training program that enrolls 352 low-income young adults and employs 175 people ...

President Trump issued an executive order last month instructing federal officials to “reach and surpass” a million new active apprenticeships. It was an ambitious target that apprenticeship advocates ...

For the first time in a long time, Karl Ely figured he had pretty much everything he needed. Ely moved to Portland from Philadelphia several decades ago. The aspiring artist worked as a line cook and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Every Tuesday, as part of our Greater Memphis on a Mission series, we highlight organizations making Memphis better. This week, we caught up with a group that believes in preparing ...

Habitat for Humanity carpentry fellow Emma Joyce works on a house in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Have a question about Philly’s neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly ...